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member 23, 196i syball The Holidays Will "Make It Better’ the Mars Hill College l dillrop Vol. XLIIL No. 7 MARS HILL. NORTH CAROLINA December 14, 1968 'Speaker 655 405 230 ers 175 165 160 140 125 0 Boddie Is ^.““r/JSFoeus Week rt of the spring II and track wil; e spring. are reminded oi Dr. Charles E. Boddie will be mlletin board lo the speaker for Christian Focus ance to the cafe Week, Jan. 27-30. As a change information con of pace from the team-approach amural activities of recent years, he will be the women is posted only speaker to lead chapels, eve- id is kept up to ning worship services and dormi- of the Hilltog tory discussions during the week. Dr. Boddie, president of the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tenn., has spoken at Mars Hill on two pre vious occasions in 1964 and 1965. No speaker in recent years has elicited such an enthusiastic re sponse from students, according to college chaplain Robert Melvin. Dr. Boddie is a graduate of Syracuse University, Colgate- Rochester Divinity School and the University of Rochester. He re ceived the honorary Doctor of Uivinity degree from Keuka I 11^^. He is a recognized leader among American Negroes and has been a member of the President’s Commission on Cambodia. In great demand as a speaker on col lege campuses, he has been the featured speaker at Ridgecrest, ipwj Ulorieta, and various student mis- sions conferences. The former staff member of tbe American Baptist Foreign Mission Society has been pastor cf the First Baptist Church, Huntington, W. Va., and holds Membership in the American Guild of Organists. )ERS Toe ECE IICE ertise in the are helping eceipts from hemselves go a this worthy by patroniz- Cadenza Ready The winter edition of the 1968- 69 Cadenza, the literary and art Magazine of Mars Hill College, was delivered this week by Groves Tinting Company of Asheville. According to Mike Rice, editor, bis edition is an expanded issue of 24 pages plus a 30-page insert, Tim Hllmore’s “Starr-Crossed Lover.” ■Also included in the magazine are sketches by the Art Department, a V'o-page college-poetry spread by erri Beck, prose, photographs by ®d Ellmore, poetry, and serio- gfaphs. Cover design and lay-out were ^ndled by Dale Hailey, art editor, M^e’re proud of this Cadenza be- ^^Use it represents something of e creativity present among stu- ®*its on our campus,” the editor ® nted. “The material was selected ®cause it represented thought and •stinctiveness. There are flaws in ® magazine, of course; but at ®^st -vve have tried and in trying ^ve been able to put on paper PoUions of ourselves.” Ians for the spring edition in- '^de more special effects and per- Ps the addition of eight pages, dents are urged to begpn work 'v on material; deadline has been ®yor March 16. end sales in the cafeteria ^j^^^onight. Price is $1 per copy. President Bentley inks a contract which connects the college with the local unit of the Office of Economic Opportunity in a Leadership Training Program. IVitnessing the procedure are (1. to r.) Jim Thorson, director for research at the Opportunity Corporation of Madison and Buncombe Counties; Dr. Richard Hoffman, who will direct the program; and Hugh Lassister, executive director of the Opportunity Corporation. New Phone System Planned Ric ^ contact Mike wishing to obtain a book ■ice. Improved telephone service for the campus was assured by an an nouncement earlier this week by Business Manager L. W. Moelchert Jr. that the college will order the installation of a modern new cen tral telephone system. The Series 40 Dial Telephone System won’t be delivered by the white-whiskered gentleman in the red suit, but the announcement of its anticipated installation next summer is a welcome Christmas message for both students and faculty. Parents of students, alumni and other outsiders who have had dif ficulty in the past trying to con tact persons on campus should also be cheered by the news. The modern new system will put phones on each floor of the various dormitories and in the various cot tages around the campus. It will be accompanied by the installation of sufficient public pay phones on the campus to greatly improve out-going long distance service. The present system includes 10 Canterbury Club Slates Meeting Canterbury Club, an organiza tion of Episcopal students named after the Archbishop of Canter bury, will meet in the “upper room” of the college cafeteria for a celebration of Holy Communion on Monday, Jan. 20, at 5 p.m., immediately followed by a din ner meeting. Rev. Fr. Bill Edwards has been appointed chaplain to the Episco pal students at both Mars Hill and Asheville-Biltmore by the Rt. Rev. M. George Henry, bishop of the diocese of Western North Carolina. Holy Communion ■will be a weekly event for the Episcopal students on campus who partici pate in the club. lines in the dormitories plus 16 semi-public stations. At present, the only means a student has to receive calls is via a pay phone. Currently the operations of the college and the communications of the faculty are handled by 23 busi ness phones at various locations. The new system will include a central switchboard, manned dur ing the daytime. It will be installed on the ground floor of the Adminis tration Building. On-campus calls may be made by simple dialing; outgoing long dis tance calls may be made from pay stations by students and from of fice phones by faculty and staff members; incoming long distance calls may be accepted at any sta tion. In addition to improving service for students the new central system will mean improved communica tions for the faculty and staff and for the business operations of the college. A direct line to Asheville (and Buncombe County) will be available for official business. Other modern conveniences will be included, such as conference calls, holding capacity, inter-office com munication, and simple dial trans fer of calls. Leave Your Address Any student who does not plan to return to the campus for the spring semester and who would like to have his copy of the 1969 Laurel mailed to him or her next May should make arrangements on the subject before the Christ mas holidays. According to Carol Chandler, editor of the publication, any student who is eligible for a copy of the book will receive it by mail only if he or she leaves a com pleted address label -with one of the secretaries in the Division of Public Information, Montague Building. Leadership Training Grant Is Received A grant of $9,000 has been awarded Mars Hill College to fi nance another program by which the college can become more closely related to the surrounding area. It is for a Leadership Training Institute which the college ■will conduct for the Opportunity Cor poration of Madison and Bun combe Counties, for the Model Madison Project and for other community action programs and local governmental agencies. The Institute, which ■will be di rected by Dr. Richard Hoffman of the political science faculty. Helping Is Educational With the close of the semester and the approach of Christmas the various organizations that are sponsoring families in the commu nity are starting to make their deliveries. Many individuals are becoming aware of of the immen sity of the problem to alleviate poverty. Beecher Horton, speaking for KPT fraternity, expressed the need of individual involvement. Frater nity members recognize strictly government help can either be wasted or unappreciated. ' Gary Shockey and Charlie Rog ers helped make a delivery Dec. 8 for Myers Dorm to a family of 12. They 'witnessed here the old theor ies of poverty being rendered false. The man of the house holds down a full-time but low-paying job and farms his few acres of land. But how is he to adequately support his family on less than $3,000 a year and give his children the op portunity to know or desire a better life? APO fraternity president Bill Kilgore has related that his club is considering the possibility of medical assistance for a girl ■with polio. A young boy in the family has also sho'wn academic promise if he could be given the opportu nity. Coordination of these projects has been with the Opportunity Cor poration in Marshall. Dorothy Ar rington, a Mars Hill resident who works for the corporation, is glad to. see students display some con cern and seek responsibility in the community. Ken Sanchagrin has a history of community involve ment while in the Catholic Semi nary. Now director of Community Organizers of the Marshall Or ganizers of the Marshall Office, he believes the residents of Madi son and Buncombe Counties are not the only ones that may benefit from this campus involvement. “I hope the college kids, when doing for the families, will learn something themselves. Just giving Christmas baskets is only a temor- ary operation whereas by establish ing a rapport the students can learn.” will perform some training of anti-poverty personnel and local government officials; it will study local conditions in an effort to determine the best types of pro grams and approaches these ac tion agencies should follow; and it will seek new ways in which students and faculty members of the college can become more deep ly involved in such agencies and programs. The college is contributing Dr. Hoffman’s services to the Insti tute; the $9,000 will be used to finance seminars, conferences, travel, secretarial assistance and other expenses of the program. The appropriation is for a period ending in December 1969. The grant is the most recent development in the college’s ex panding program of involvement with the wider community in which it is located. An already heralded program. Dr. Hoffman’s course in com munity development, received ad ditional publicity last week in an article in the Asheville Times. Special attention was given to students Ed Griffin, Eleanor Duckett and Garland Williams and their experiences in the in ternship phase of 'the unique class. Ed, a junior from Raleigh, has been working ■with Joe Revis, chief probation officer of the Buncombe County Domestic Re lations and Juvenile Court. His experiences with juveniles have been fascinating and enlighten ing. “Instead of changing my at titudes,” he said, “the experiences have broadened them. I didn’t know so many factors were in volved in juvenile delinquency, factors that could involve a per son so vitally.” Eleanor has interned in the of fice of Asheville’s new city mana ger, Phin Horton, getting a good behind-the-scenes view of city government — “from financial to personnel matters.” A ministerial student from Hendersonville, Garland has ser ved in an agency where he was able to observe racial problems and how they affect both blacks and whites. “I went in very ignorant,” he confesses. “I needed to overcome some of my prejudices. There couldn’t have been a better agen cy than this for me. I know this is a cliche but I’ve had a chance to walk in someone else’s shoes.” Get the Spirit Help Jacob Adeleke bring his wife to the U. S. Contribute through members of Sigma Alpha Chi or Sigma Kappa Lamba.
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